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Building Backlinks With Blogs

The most boring part of getting traffic to a website is
getting backlinks. This is hard, boring, time consuming work. You
spend hours finding relevant websites to link to, then spend
hours more sending emails requesting backlinks, or submitting
your sites to there links pages. And at the end of the day
(actually in a few weeks), you have ½ a dozen new reciprocal
link partners. that's good and all, but it bores the living hell
out of me, and I don't have time for it. And they are only
reciprocal links.

One-way links

Far better are one way links back to your pages. These are
from websites that link to your site without you having to
reciprocate. They are the best links to have, and the best way to
get them in the past has been by submitting articles to places
like directories, ezines and forums where other people read them,
and hopefully give you a link back on there website
somewhere.

Using a blog you can build one-way links to your site very
fast. If you write articles of interest to others, they will link
back to you in articles they write on their own blogs, and
bloggers link to other bloggers without even thinking.

Getting your blog seen

"OK, so how do I get my blog in front of other people?" you
ask... you automatically submit your blog posts to the large blog
and feed directories as soon as you publish them, that's how!
Included in your blog software is the ability to ping other feed
sites. At SEO-easy.com you can find a free list of 45 directories
to add to your Blog, so you can ping them automatically every
time you update your blog.

If your blogging software doesn't have the ability to
automatically ping, go to Pingomatic.com and submit your blog
manually.

Where to put your blog

On your website, that's where. If your blog is hosted outside
your website... on blogger.com for instance, move it! You can't
get backlinks with your blog if unless it's on a page of your
website. The other option is using WordPress or a similar blog
package.

WordPress is fast becoming the most popular blogging software
in use today. It is included as a free download in with many
hosting accounts. Go into your servers admin and look for
Fantastico Scripts and it should be there. If your hosting
includes cPanel, you will find it is included, all you need to do
is install it, and that takes only a minute. If your hosting does
not include it, you can download and install it from
WordPress.org yourself.

You can place your blog on your homepage - yoursite.com - on
another page of your site - yoursite.com/blog - on a subdomain -
blog.yoursite.com - but in my opinion, by far the best is
yoursite.com

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Russell Savige is the owner of SEO-easy.com which publishes helpful
up-to-date tips, techniques and ideas on SEO as soon as they
become available.
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